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on the Score of their being illative of the Principal
are: 1st That it is not of the Nature of any
Evidence, co Nomine, to command an absolute
Belief. 2dly That there is always a risque of
their not being regarded as such by a Jury
where the Force of their Connection with the
Principal may be made apparent in many
Instances to the Legislature by Lights which
it cannot depend upon a Jury's possessing uniformly,
on being guided by, though they should possess
3dly That on the Score of Evidences they can draw
punishment only as inducing a Persuasion of
the Act's actually having been perpetuated a
persuasion overthrown in many Cases by other
Proofs the Truth of the Fact being otherwise contrary
although the Mischief produced by the bare alarm
of there being a Person who would have perpetrated
the principal if he could, may well warrant
the recurring to a Punishment to check it
But it is not all evidentiary Acts that can
be made Accessories to their Principal — 1st because
many cannot be brought to by any Apparatus
of
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